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Datactics Funnels Funding into AI technology, Staff Hires and International Expansion
Datactics is planning technology, staff and international expansion following the conclusion of a £1.2 million funding round led by The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Group Fund and new investor Edinburgh-based Par Equity. Investments in technology and people include an extension of Datactics’ data quality solutions platform and set up of a dedicated artificial intelligence…
MarkLogic Responds to the Data Management Challenges of GDPR
This week’s big reveal of the ICO’s intention to fine British Airways £183.39 million for infringements of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sent shock waves through industry, with an aftershock coming later in the week when the ICO issued a second notice, this time noting its intention to fine Marriott International £99,200,396 for GDPR breaches….
UK Regulators Eye Up Digital Regulatory Reporting
UK regulators are stepping up their efforts to digitise regulatory reporting over the next few years. The changes the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) propose – and which are being developed jointly with the industry – promise a transformation in the way data flows between supervisors and financial services firms….
DSB Reports Growing Industry Interest in Gaining Added Value from its ISIN Allocation Service
The results of the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB) first industry consultation in 2019 show users of the bureau moving on from initial implementation issues around the DSB ISIN allocation and maintenance service, and expressing growing interest in efficiency and gaining added value from the service. The consultation, now in its third year, closed on June…
Dion Global Releases Corporate Actions Solution
Dion Global Solutions has released a corporate actions solution. Already live with two pilot customers, the solution is designed to make corporate actions processing cost effective for the smallest industry participants and scalable for the largest. It aims to decrease manual processing by increasing automation, and reduce risk by ensuring no event is missed or…
Data Virtuality Breaks Data Management Mould with Logical Data Warehouse
Data Virtuality has broken the traditional data management mould with Logical Data Warehouse (LDW), a solution that combines the flexibility of a data virtualisation engine with extract, transfer and load (ETL) tools. It includes 200 connectors to data sources and consumption tools, allows users to access data in real time, and uses SQL language to…
Regulators Double Down on BCBS 239 Data Quality Focus
The European Central Bank (ECB) and other financial services regulators will increase their focus on improving the quality of data they receive from financial institutions over the next 24 months. Speakers at the Vermeg Annual Regulatory Reporting Conference, held in London in late June, said regulators are analysing the quality of the Basel III data…
J.P. Morgan Partners StatPro to Deliver Portfolio Analytics for Asset Managers
StatPro is hoping to reach new heights through a strategic partnership with J.P. Morgan that will provide J.P. Morgan clients with access to StatPro’s Revolution portfolio analytics platform alongside the bank’s fixed income benchmark indices. The aim of the partnership, which has an initial five-year term, is to create a one-stop shop offering decision makers…
AxiomSL and Refinitiv Partner on Shareholder Disclosure
AxiomSL has partnered Refinitiv to combine the former’s Global Shareholding Disclosures (GSD) solution with the latter’s reference data. The aim is to enable financial institutions to automatically enrich client positions while managing regulatory obligations across multiple jurisdictions. John Mason, head of pricing and reference data at Refinitiv, says: “Asset managers face challenges in understanding local…
Embracing the Known in FRTB: Why Banks Need to Step Away from the Data Pool and Start with the Familiar
By: Charlie Browne, Head of Market & Risk Data Solutions, GoldenSource. The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is coming and it has sent firms into a spin around how to get the data required to prove risk factor modellability. It is the first time banks will be obligated to do this, a mammoth…